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CS Professor Featured in USA Today

Computer science Department Chair Ran Libeskind-Hadas was featured in a USA Today article about the gender gap in math and science fields.

In the article, “Math and science fields battle persistent gender gap,” Libeskind-Hadas shared the importance of allowing students to choose how they want to apply the skills they are acquiring.

“Many of the guys would be just as happy in a class that focused exclusively on video games and robots,” he said. “[For women], seeing the applications of computing to society is really important, and seeing applications of computing to things they use in their day-to-day lives is important. That includes things like, how does Google Maps work, or how does a music recommendation system work.”

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